Lots of people claim lots of things.

I'll wait for verification.

And not just that ... one important question for me is how many bending cycles said wire can endure before breaking due to fatigue.... and how expensive are they to replace.

 

I don't care whether the parents involved get jail time or not, and I certainly don't think it warrants the 20 years that was mentioned in one article I read. But I do think that a fine of 10x whatever they spent on brides and such is fair, with the money being used to fund merit-based scholarships at OTHER universities; even if I accept that the university administrations had no knowledge of the wrongdoing, there's no basis for letting the schools benefit from the wrongdoing after the fact.

Now, as for the others involved, particularly the coaches and the testing center officials -- THEY deserve nice healthy prison sentences (though I would still say that twenty years is a stretch) for violating their duties to their positions of responsibility. The middlemen ("admissions consultants") didn't really do that, but they certainly committed fraud purely for personal financial gain, so whatever prison/financial penalties apply, have at it.

A couple articles I read claimed that the kids didn't know any of this was going on. While I could see that being possible with a straight up bribe (which appears to be the case in some instances), it's hard to believe that when you are being admitted based on being "recruited" for a sport you've never played, that you don't have some idea that something is up.

I as thinking the same thing. Just think how much goo their money can do. If they can afford to bribe someone to get sweetems into college then they can certainly afford to but some bright kid from a poor neighborhood through college. And the scholarship needs to be merit abs\d economic need based. The color of someone's skin should never have anything to do with it.

 

I as thinking the same thing. Just think how much goo their money can do. If they can afford to bribe someone to get sweetems into college then they can certainly afford to but some bright kid from a poor neighborhood through college. And the scholarship needs to be merit abs\d economic need based. The color of someone's skin should never have anything to do with it.

What struck me is that these folks can spend $500k or even $6.5m to bribe the way into these colleges for their kids. So... what if they had spent that money actually preparing their kids to compete fairly for those slots? I wonder how much of it is a true entitlement mentality on both the parents and the kids part, and how much of it reflects the rock-bottom quality of these kids.

 

What struck me is that these folks can spend $500k or even $6.5m to bribe the way into these colleges for their kids. So... what if they had spent that money actually preparing their kids to compete fairly for those slots? I wonder how much of it is a true entitlement mentality on both the parents and the kids part, and how much of it reflects the rock-bottom quality of these kids.

The rich parents know that preparing their kids to compete fairly is a waste of money.

 

The rich parents know that preparing their kids to compete fairly is a waste of money.

She works better naked.

 

She works better naked.

She also works better as a demon.

 

Can't remember which one but one of the daughters of one of the parent's involved in this scandal makes something like $20K a crack for each snapchat video she does. With that kind of money she could afford to pay for her on damn education. But how in the hell can someone make $30K for some nonsense video?

 

 

On a different, more serious note:

 

The God that failed -- over and over again.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47636176

Officials in San Francisco have proposed a new law to ban e-cigarette sales until their health effects are evaluated by the US government.

It asked: "This proposed legislation begs the question - why would the city be comfortable with combustible cigarettes being on shelves when we know they kill more than 480,000 Americans per year?"

They are very comfortable spending tobacco and pot tax money while providing free needles for opioid drug addicts.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/04/25/drug-users-san-francisco-civic-center-bart/

 

Another 'vast conspiracy' is now officially in the dustbin of history. It's a great day in America.

 

Another 'vast conspiracy' is now officially in the dustbin of history. It's a great day in America.

Let's see if the real conspiracy now gets mainstream exposure. Unfortunately, probably not.

 

Let's see if the real conspiracy now gets mainstream exposure. Unfortunately, probably not.

I've heard a lot of bogus charges of 'treason' lately. The former Intel chiefs should be glad that knowing lying to the American people is not listed as a chargeable offence for treason.

 

Let's see if the real conspiracy now gets mainstream exposure. Unfortunately, probably not.

I doubt we'll see as thorough a treatment as Trump just got, but Trump was speaking this morning in fairly forceful terms about exposing the coup attempt and mentioned the need to ensure it can't happen again. That doesn't sound like something he's going to let go of. It wouldn't surprise me to see Clapper and Brennan as victims of no-knock, early morning raids in their near future. Lying to congress is a crime, after all.

 

 

How Europe is being told, what, where, when, why...........

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47698811

People had invested Mr Mueller with their hopes for a premature termination of the Trump administration.

After Attorney General William Barr concluded that Mr Trump had not committed criminal obstruction, the inescapable fact was that he is likely to finish his term of office. There, I said it.

kv

 

At first I thought that the sentence was rather harsh... but then it downed on me that the victim got the worst part of the deal, and that these idiots fully knew what they were doing:

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/street-racers-get-life-in-prison-for-fatal-accident

The pair were sentenced to life in prison in 2017 after receiving Germany's first murder convictions for a drag-racing fatality.

 

 

It fun to watch the lights -- momentarily -- come on.

Unfortunately, these 'skulls full of mush' are too far gone to carry that line of thought to the obvious conclusion -- and to learn something important.